Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Call to establish research fund on climate change

The Daily Star (Bangladesh): Climate change experts and researchers yesterday called on the government to establish a fund for research with a portion of the Climate Change Trust Fund. They also made an appeal to the development partners to fund a research platform in the country to encourage and support the involvement of Bangladeshi scientists in research programme and use the opportunity Bangladesh provides to build knowledge on climate change adaptation.

The recommendations came from the concluding session of an international conference in the city. The Bangladesh Centre for Advance Studies (BCAS) organised the conference on 'Building Collaborative Research Platform to support the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan'.

Speaking as the chief guest in the concluding session, State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud said the government has already allocated 15 percent of its own climate fund for research recently. "Climate change is a knowledge-based issue. Generating proper knowledge and implementation those is very important to deal with the issue," he said.

Bangladesh wants to play a leading role while battling the global challenge, as the country is at the forefront of the climate change impacts, he added….

June 2009 – At the studios of Cleanskies TV, I was interviewed about the costs of climate change, and discussed adaptation efforts underway in the US and around the world.

May 2009 – I helped draft the scenarios for Rising Waters, a multistakeholder scenarios effort focused on climate change adaptation in the Hudson Valley. The final report is now completed and available here.

May 2008 – I reviewed two books on climate and energy in the New Leader magazine: James Gustave Speth's The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, plus Robert Bryce's Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence.

January 2008 – A very local paper covers a very global issue.... The Litchfield County Times in northwestern Connectictut ran an article in January 2008 about Carbon-Based.

Now available: Climate Change Adaptation in 2011

A selection of my writings from 2011, plus some of my posts, as well as links... all focusing on the risks of climate change